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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790587603321

Autore

Faubion James D. <1957->

Titolo

The ethics of kinship : ethnographic inquiries / / James D. Faubion ; contributors, Carolyn Babula [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-7425-0955-9

0-7425-7889-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Classificazione

73.43

Disciplina

306.83

Soggetti

Kinship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of the Ethics of Kinship James D. Faubion; 1 Caring and Being Cared For: Displacing Marriage, Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality John Borneman; 2 Rainbow Family, Rainbow Nation: Reflections on Relatives and Relational Dynamics in Trinidad Denise Youngblood; 3 Personalizing It: Adoption, Bastardy, Kinship, and Family Jamila Bargach; 4 A Kinship of One's Own Lamia Karim; 5 Kousi Oda Ponnu (Kousi's Daughter) Deepa S. Reddy

6 The Ethics of Affect: The Public Politics of Intimacy in the Bloomsbury Group and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Nityanand Deckha7 This Week the Blue Room: Locating Kinship in a Split-Level House Susan Ossman; 8 What We Bring to the Table: The Means of Imagination in an African American Family Stanford W. Carpenter; 9 ""Like Family to Me"": Families of Origin, Families of Choice, and Class Mobility Laurel George; 10 Be/longings Kristin Peterson; 11 Family I Imagine Carolyn Babula; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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